STUNNING
Dictionary entry overview: What does stunning mean?
• STUNNING (adjective)
The adjective STUNNING has 4 senses:
1. commanding attention
2. causing great astonishment and consternation
3. causing or capable of causing bewilderment or shock or insensibility
4. strikingly beautiful or attractive
Familiarity information: STUNNING used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• STUNNING (adjective)
Meaning:
Commanding attention
Synonyms:
arresting; stunning; sensational
Context examples:
an arresting drawing of people turning into animals / a sensational concert--one never to be forgotten / a stunning performance
Similar:
impressive (making a strong or vivid impression)
Meaning:
Causing great astonishment and consternation
Context examples:
the strike came as a stunning protest against management / a stunning defeat
Similar:
surprising (causing surprise or wonder or amazement)
Meaning:
Causing or capable of causing bewilderment or shock or insensibility
Context examples:
laid the poor fellow senseless with one stunning blow / a stunning detonation with volumes of black smoke
Similar:
disorienting (causing loss of physical or intellectual bearings)
Meaning:
Strikingly beautiful or attractive
Context examples:
quite stunning with large dark eyes and a beautiful high-bosomed figure / stunning photographs of Canada's wilderness areas
Similar:
beautiful (delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration)
